On the day you were born!

I've said before that this blog is mainly to capture family memories.  I plan to have it printed into a book once a year.  The next couple days I am planning on posting some memory type items that I want Melanie to be able to look back on.  I recently found a website that allows you to look up important events in history on the day you were born.  So, Miss Melanie, the day you were born in history these were the things that happened:

Lead Story
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans, 1873
American Revolution
Battle of Barren Hill, Pennsylvania, 1778
Automotive
Street in front of the White House closed to traffic, 1995
Civil War
Union Congress passes the Homestead Act, 1862
Cold War
United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll, 1956
Crime
Mary Kay Letourneau marries former victim, 2005
Disaster
Plane crashes at Cairo airport, 1965
General Interest
Vasco da Gama reaches India, 1498
Christopher Columbus dies, 1506
The Homestead Act, 1862
Spirit of St. Louis departs, 1927
Battle for Hamburger Hill ends, 1969
Supreme Court defends rights of homosexuals, 1996
Hollywood
The Simpsons airs 400th episode, 2007
Literary
W.H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen, 1946
Music
Frank Sinatra is laid to rest, 1998
Old West
Levi Strauss patents copper-riveted jeans, 1873
Presidential
Lincoln signs Homestead Act, 1862
Sports
Sunday Silence wins Preakness by a nose, 1989
Vietnam War
French see "light at the end of the tunnel" in Vietnam, 1953
Kennedy criticizes the "Hamburger Hill" battle, 1969
World War I
British renew attacks in Battle of Festubert, 1915
World War II

Germans break through to English Channel at Abbeville, France, 1940